Oblique Strategies PRO
Productivity · 2025 — now

Oblique Strategies PRO

Lateral thinking, by Brian Eno — 770+ cards, 5 decks, 5 historical editions.

iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch · Mac · Vision Pro · Android · Free · in-app purchases · 5.0★

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A digital home for Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's 1975 card deck — plus four more decks for today's creative disciplines

Oblique Strategies has been a creative-unblocking tool since 1975. David Bowie used it on Low. Talking Heads kept a deck in the studio. Coldplay still do. Anyone who's ever hit a wall on a song, a screenplay, a startup pitch, or an engineering problem has an opinion about which card saved them.

Oblique Strategies PRO brings all five historical editions into one app — every card Eno and Schmidt published, 1975 through 2001 — and adds four new decks curated for today's creative disciplines: Game Design (60), Academia (129), Software (253), and Writing (133). 770+ cards total. A card draw, a Lock Screen widget, a haptic tap on your Apple Watch — inspiration at the pace you need it.

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